From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:46:47 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <62761683.AiDQ035fVK@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6079939.ppPQ0zCOeG@linux1.krischik.com> <4352B1F1.6020805@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-3-231.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1129564578 14291 84.73.3.231 (17 Oct 2005 15:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:56:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5746 Date: 2005-10-17T17:46:47+02:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > Martin, > >> In only thing I would wish for from AdaCore is a zero seat offer - just a >> gnat tracker account with download (GMGPL) option but without priority >> support. > > Labtek did that at some point (first work on GNAT 2.03a Feb 1995; last > was on 3.04a1 Jun 1996). They were packaging GNAT for Windows. The offer > was very low cost... They never succeed raising a market! I can understand that - and I have heard similar from AdaCore. Only it is slightly for AdaCore: They package it anyway, GnatTracker is running anyway - all for the "real" customers. A zero seat offer would not cost them anything extra - unless - they fear they would "real" customers to a zero seat offer. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com